Comments on: Bluehost CPU Solution – Throttling Attempts Unlimited CPU in Shared Hosting

By: peace

peace — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 07:28:40 +0000

My site has throttled more than 18000 seconds in past 24 hours. And the traffic is only 350 unique visitors. It means Bluehost is only good to sustain 500 visitors a day on single domain and that is all.

By: Passerby

Passerby — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 02:31:01 +0000

I was throttled 8320 seconds in 24 hours with bluehost. This seems quite excessive for a site getting a few hundred hits per day.

Can anyone tell me if it is, or better still, recommend a host that isn’t totally unreasonable for about 5 – 8 GB per month?

By: Rifta

Rifta — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 01:18:57 +0000

By all means get another hosting account. These guys are horrible anyway you slice it and there support has really gone down hill. There is much better companies to give your money to than these bunch of Sot’s.

By: John at Website Building biz

John at Website Building biz — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 15:45:27 +0000

I’ve heard that the reporting on the throttling isn’t very accurate. The best way to get an idea is to test it out during peak traffic times and to get feedback from the users. If it was slow, users would definitely use that poll to let you know! People love complaining about free web services when they get a chance 😉

By: scott

scott — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 06:50:50 +0000

@Monz What do you think about getting another hosting site with Blue Host to separate the content. So if your site was xxxxxxx.com then get another domain name calledxxxxxxx2.com and link your content to both sites so that nobody would be the wiser about going to a different website all together. They would just think they were going to a different page. Now that sounds logical, Plus it sound less expensive than running a dedicated server...

By: scott

scott — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 06:40:39 +0000

Sorry in the “Scott” commnet is wrong.. It’s been very fast, quick and good…. no slow or negative comments.

By: scott

scott — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 06:39:10 +0000

ok. The question is, What does it mean if my site is throttling 1500 seconds in 24 hours?
I finally wanted to know because my site is video, and audio based. We are talking 1mb – 6mb videos. 100’s and 100’s of them.. games, exams and I have about 70 databases and there are a whole lot more coming. Right now I am at the point of getting between 200 – 299 people a day. Roughly on the avg 270 people a day. So, I put a poll on my site to ask the people using the site about the speed. Very fast, quick, slow, very slow, and “I fell asleep waiting”.. So far it’s been quick, slow and good …… nothing negative. So now the next question would be, What is happening really when my site is throttling and how much can I throttle before it really becomes nuissance? 1000 seconds every 15 minutes for a duration of an hour? Does anyone know?

By: Harvey Davidson

Harvey Davidson — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:45:28 +0000

I had a couple of static web sites hosted on Bluehost which were constantly being throttled. In my opinion all the throttling program does at Bluehost is slow down any website. I am not impressed with it at all. The same sites hosted on Hostgator and Stablehost run much, much faster.

By: This website building experiment is a huge success

This website building experiment is a huge success — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:14:48 +0000

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By: Monz

Monz — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 22:22:56 +0000

my site is mostly high, and i’m trying to cut off this CPU throttling, but even after removing most of the scripts, it’s still high.
also I tried one thing in the first begging I closed the site completely and can you believe that the CPU Throttling kept high for about 3 hours, and even when it got down to zero, some times reached 77 during the closure of the site, LOL, I’m sure there’s something wrong with those numbers.
Anyways, I’ve got confused now, what should I do, I just have one option now, is to close the site, for now, and upgrade to a private server, it seems the logical solution